Philosophy Quotes

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.